Benefits of Membership

MEMBERSHIP IS OPEN TO ALL COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE HOUSING INDUSTRY. BELOW ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF BECOMING AN HBA MEMBER AND BECOMING ACTIVE IN THE HOUSING INDUSTRY.

Continuing Education The HBA offers in-house educational seminars throughout the year. These seminars aid understanding of aspects of the industry and several can be credited toward a professional designation. These in-house seminars as well as other Kansas City area educational seminars are listed in the HBA's monthly publication, Builder Business News, and This Week at the HBA.

Networking Opportunities The HBA hosts many events that offer the opportunity for members to meet and do business with other HBA members in both formal and casual atmospheres. Networking events include; regional membership meetings, awards banquets and golf tournaments. The HBA encourages all members to actively do business with one another and has established the "Do Business with a Member" program to encourage builder-associates as well as associates-associates relationships for the mutual benefit of both their companies and the industry.

Marketing Opportunities Members can promote their businesses by advertising in the Builder Business News, and the bi-annual homes tour books (The Parade of Homes Official Guidebook and The Spring Homes Tour Official Guidebook.) Members will receive a 10 percent discount when they exhibit at the HOME SHOW, Kansas City's largest and most comprehensive home products show held at Bartle Hall every spring, and the HOME SHOW-Fall Edition, the area's exclusive fall home product show also held at Bartle Hall. Exhibiting in the shows is a valuable way of presenting products and services to a targeted consumer/builder audience. Builder members have the opportunity to shine when they enter their homes into the Spring Homes Tour and the Parade of Homes. The tours, which spotlight the housing industry, bring hundreds of thousands of interested, potential home buyers right to members' doors. Our tours are the country's second largest, with more than 400 entries on each tour.

Recognition Membership in the HBA provides many opportunities to be honored as one of the industry's best. In addition to the contests associated with the Spring Homes Tour and the Parade of Homes, members can enter their marketing ideas and promotions in the Metropolitan Awards for Marketing Excellence (MAME) contest. Winners are showcased at HBA events and in the tour books. There is also recognition for builder and associate of the year.

Statistical Data Members can learn who the market leaders are. Additionally, members can learn about the metropolitan hot spots by subscribing to the HBA's Residential Permit Analysis Reports, which list the top builders, developments and addresses of the building permits pulled each month and for previous months in seven counties. The reports aid builders with the planning process and help associates develop sales leads.

Industry Information Through the HBA's monthly publication, Builder Business News, members are kept abreast of what's happening in the housing industry and the association. Subscriptions to BBN are free with membership. Members with an email address on file also receive This Week at the HBA.

NAHB Membership Along with your membership in the HBA of Greater K.C., you are also a member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), which represents more than 190,000 professional businesses throughout the nation.      Along with significantly representing the housing interest on Capitol Hill, NAHB has a massive network of resources available to its members. Members receive free industry publication subscriptions to "Nation's Building News." NBN covers the latest on national regulatory, technological and legislative industry issues and NAHB's monthly "BUILDER magazine". Through the Member Service Center, information specialists are available to help clarify your needs and assist you in finding requested information, or they will direct your call to a staff expert. NAHB Online Services offer two web sites, NAHB.com and NAHB.net, a members only site. With Fax-On-Demand, your fax machine can become a non-stop source of data on a wide variety of subjects. In addition, the NAHB Home Builder Bookstore contains the largest collection of industry related information in the country with an extensive assortment of books, leaflets, videotapes and software.

Additionally, members may attend the International Builders' Show and the Remodelers' Show, which are the largest of their kind in the nation. There isn't anywhere you can find this massive amount of education, information and services available to you and your business.